Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

[Stephan Hermann]

Moins,


On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:56:00 +0200
Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> scsi0 : 3ware 9000 Storage Controller
> >> 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at
> >> 0xd0140000, IRQ: 16.
> >> 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 2.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.047,
> >> Ports: 8.
> >>  Vendor: 3ware     Model: Logical Disk 00   Rev: 1.00
> >>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> >
> 
> Well, I have identical problem with 3ware storage controller, and it
> set caps something to 1.6 TB before I got the same output about very
> big device. I resolved this problem with creating two raids with 1.2
> TB each.
> 
> Obviously, it is a very interesting bug and would rock if someone
> would fix it.

Hopefully you play all with GPT partition labels and not with msdos
labels...

as for msdos labels (which is the default) you won't come over 2TB
(reading as disk vendor means: 1000bytes == 1KB and not 1024bytes ==
1KByte)


REegards,

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